Summary
This title offers guidance on how organizations can take account of the financial implications of environmental matters and on how financial and environmental management issues can be linked, producing a positive, and green, bottom line.
Contents
Introduction
1. Environment and the bottom line
2. Integrating environment into capital investment decisions
3. Understanding and managing environmental costs
4. Developing energy efficiency and/or waste minimization initiatives
5. Understanding and managing lifecycle costs
6. The role of accountants in environmental management and performance evaluation
7. A strategic approach to eco-management accounting
8. Case studies
9. An accountant’s guide to the environment and sustainability
10. An environmental manager’s guide to accounting and financial management
11. Measuring environmental performance
Appendix 1. The Ecomac project
Appendix 2. Further information
References